Determination of a suitable parameter field for the active fluid jet polishing process

Roland Maurer; Heiko Biskup; Christian Trum; Rolf Rascher; Christine Wünsche

doi:10.1117/12.2028752

15 October 2013 Determination of a suitable parameter field for the active fluid jet polishing process

Roland Maurer, Heiko Biskup, Christian Trum, Rolf Rascher, Christine Wünsche

Proceedings Volume 8884, Optifab 2013; 888406 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2028752
Event: SPIE Optifab, 2013, Rochester, New York, United States

Abstract

In 2012 a well-known company in the field of high precision optics assigned the University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf to determine a suitable parameter field for the active fluid jet polishing (AFJP) process in order to reach a surface accuracy of at least lambda / 5. The active fluid jet polishing is a relatively new and an affordable sub-aperture polishing process. For a fast and precise identification of the parameter field a considered design of experiment is necessary. The available control variables were the rotational speed of the nozzle, the distance between the test object and the jet, the feed rate, the material of the pin inside the nozzle and the material of the test object itself. In order to reach a significant data density on the one hand and to minimize the number of test runs on the other hand a meander shaped tool path was chosen. At each blank nine paths had been driven whereby at each path another parameter combination was picked. Thus with only one test object nine parameter settings may be evaluated. For the automatized analysis of the tracks a software tool was developed. The software evaluates ten sections which orthogonally intersect the nine tracks on the test-lens. The significant measurement parameters per section are the width and the height of each path as well as the surface roughness within the polished tracks. With the aid of these parameters and further statistical evaluations a suitable parameter field for the goal to find a constant and predictable removal spot was determined. Furthermore up to now over 60 test runs have been successfully finished with nine parameter combinations in each case. As a consequence a test evaluation by hand would be very time-consuming and the software facilitates it dramatically.

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Roland Maurer, Heiko Biskup, Christian Trum, Rolf Rascher, and Christine Wünsche "Determination of a suitable parameter field for the active fluid jet polishing process", Proc. SPIE 8884, Optifab 2013, 888406 (15 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2028752

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